[palmotea]

> That's true but in reality I think people are far more afraid of AI in terms of how it is being used in warfare and policing. Automatic target detection and deployment of drones, or even how it might simply make their role at work redundant etc

I think the last one should be first on the list: regular people are afraid AI will negatively affect their economic security (i.e. knowledge and service workers will get the rust-belt factory worker treatment).

And the potential of giving knowledge and service workers the rust-belt factory worker treatment is exactly what makes Wall Street excited about AI and has the AI company leaders salivating about the profit they can make.

Warfare, policing, bio-engineered viruses are theoretical and far down the list.

[wongarsu]

Not to mention that "automatic target detection" was primarily enabled by the ~2016-2020 AI hype/boom around image recognition, not the 2022-current hype/boom around LLMs

[detectivestory]

Its already being used in warfare though.

[palmotea]

> Its already being used in warfare though.

What I mean is theoretical to the common person. They don't have killbot drones hunting them down, and are unlikely to have that experience anytime soon.

But most people have jobs, most people would be hard-hit if they lost theirs, lots of people lose theirs, and our elites are just itching to make that happen.

I'm certainly most worried about AI: my employer started an ongoing silent layoff campaign about the same time they started enforcing AI usage. I don't think those are unconnected.